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Moviegoers didn’t flock to see Katie Holmes’ return to the big screen this weekend.

Her comedy Mad Money, co-starring Queen Latifah and Diane Keaton, came in at No. 7 with $7.7 million, according to studio estimates released Sunday.

Cloverfield, the sci-fi monster flick, was the box office champ with $41 million.

No. 2: Katherine Heigl’s romantic comedy 27 Dresses, with $22.4 million. (See her in a bridesmaid dress here.)

The Jack Nicholson comedy The Bucket List ranked No. 3 with $15.2 million, while the indie comedy Juno (starring Ellen Page, who just signed on for Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut) came in at No. 4 with $10.3 million.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets was No. 5 with $8.1 million; First Sunday, No. 6, with $7.8 million.

Critics had slammed Holmes for her role. The New York Times called her “the movie’s weakest link.”

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Perhaps Suri Cruise will be an entertainer after all.

Not only is the 21-month-old a fan of the Spice Girls, she also digs American Idol.

Mom Katie Holmes — who is getting panned by critics for her latest comedy Mad Money — revealed the scoop on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM show this morning.

When Seacrest said he could hook the Cruise clan up with some tickets, the soft-spoken Holmes said, “I would be very grateful.”

Holmes, who made several TV appearances this week, gushed (some more) about Tom Cruise.

“I married the biggest movie star in the world,” she said.

Holmes said she wants to have another baby, but “not in the immediate future. Long term, of course.”

For now she has her hands full with Suri, who is “is growing and talking more. I am constantly surprised and challenged.”

Holmes also talked about her friends, the Beckhams. She called Victoria “very sexy.”

When asked about her thoughts on David’s good looks, she laughed and said, “He’s such a … nice man. He’s very good at what he does!”

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Katie Holmes is getting harsh reactions from critics in her first return to the big screen since wedding Tom Cruise and welcoming daughter Suri.

“And the cinematic comeback of the year award goes to…somebody other than Katie Holmes,” says a New York Post critic, who calls her new heist comedy Mad Money, co-starring Queen Latifah and Diane Keaton, “the most cringe-making return since Love Boat: The Next Wave.

“Holmes, with Alice Cooper hair and crazy Jim Carrey eyes, looks terrible and acts worse, unless this movie is unintentionally a lobotomy documentary,” the reviewer writes. “Whatever could have happened to her in the last couple of years to zap the talent out of her like this?”

The New York Times says Holmes is “the movie’s weakest link.”

Variety adds that throughout the film “Holmes is awkwardly upsetting the balance” between Latifah and Keaton.

“Their heist is only the pretext for jinks that range from medium high (as played out by Queen Latifah and Diane Keaton) to painfully low (as perpetrated by Katie Holmes, who pops her eyes, scrunches her nose and shakes her booty in lieu of acting),” writes the Wall Street Journal.

Holmes, who seems to have changed a lot since her early days based on her talk show appearances this week, also recently got flak for some questionable style moves in NYC.

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Sources say that Katie Holmes is having to switch her baby plans around so a second child wouldn’t interfere with her career.

Katie had hoped to begin filming The Other Side this month, and afterwards, get pregnant. Her plans were to have the baby and have another film out by the end of 2009. Actresses have to work their family planning out, so their pregnancies don’t affect scenes from their movies, and Katie is no different.

“Both she and Tom Cruise — especially Tom — were hoping to have their next baby before Katie turns 30 in December.”

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During an appearance on BET’s ’106 & Park,’ Katie Holmes presents Queen Latifah with the 2007 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television.

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